Tag Archives: Maine art teacher

TEACHING VS. LEARNING: One of the scariest things about transitioning to a choice based approach to working with children is a teacher’s fear of losing control. Many of us are operating under the false assumption that if we control every possible variable, we will ensure that our students are learning. Today, there are whole texts [...]

I have often heard comments from art teachers about the challenge of inspiring children to make collages in choice-based art classrooms. We know that kids respond strongly to the collage illustrations of Eric Carle, Leo Lionni, Ezra Jack Keats, and other visual storytellers. So what happens when we ask children to make a collage as [...]

This photo gallery shows student work completed in the last six weeks. With three snow days to interrupt our flow, students nonetheless have shown great focus and persistence in creating original works in a variety of media. My students are working hard to prepare work for our annual art show on March 31 in the [...]